Camp ASCCA Blog

Each year Camp ASCCA has the opportunity to nominate someone for the Easter Seals Alabama Gold Award. The nominee is often a person who has shown great devotion and dedication to Camp ASCCA for more than 5 years. This year Camp ASCCA nominated Dale Glover of Tuscaloosa to be a 2016 recipient of an Easter Seals Gold Award. Easter Seals Alabama presents this award to volunteers who have contributed in a significant manner to the work of the organization for no less than five years. Their involvement can be through Easter Seals county chapters, Easter Seals affiliate boards, Easter Seals corporate board and committees, fundraising events or activities that benefit Easter Seals Alabama programs and services.

With each ASCCA summer come lifechanging moments, unforgettable friendships, and a feeling that you have found your home. Heading into the office today, I could not help but think about the memories that will be made this year. We are officially 150 days away from the start of our first ASCCA summer session of 2017, and we are already in motion to prepare.

This week, Camp ASCCA was a recipient of a 2016/2017 Arts & Community Building Community Trust Grant from the Central Alabama Community Foundation. Dana Rickman (pictured above) and John Stephenson met with the foundation on Monday to receive an amount of $2,500. The grant has helped with the much needed conversion of our voice and data wireless systems here at Camp ASCCA.

On Monday, January 23, the ASCCA on the Road team began a three-day long trip through Baldwin County visiting schools, organizations, and local basketball games to speak about Camp ASCCA. We had the opportunity to meet with students across the county between the ages of 6 and 19 to discuss how to attend camp and how to be a part of the summer staff.

As many of you know, each week the ASCCA on the Road team has been visiting different schools and organizations to discuss what we do at Camp ASCCA and how others can get involved. This week we visited Union Springs Elementary School and South Highlands Middle School to meet with their classes and make their own personalized Camp ASCCA spin art t-shirts.

Earlier this week, we opened registration for Summer 2017 to all potential campers, returning and new. Every day we receive a flood of applications and have also begun the approval process. As our team receives your application, it will be processed and evaluated by our staff.

Here at Camp ASCCA, we have started off the new year with a surge of staff applications for the upcoming summer, ASCCA on the Road trips, and weekend camps starting up soon. Outside of summer plans, we have many events coming up this winter/spring, and we want to keep you in the loop on all of the upcoming happenings.

As you begin to enjoy the holiday season, check out the Camp ASCCA Good Times newsletter for Winter 2016! It will help you stay up-to-date on everything that has happened this fall and winter. It covers everything from new hires, special projects, the beloved ASCCA Christmas Weekend, and more!

This morning, we were visited by Merry Neisler, an owner of various McDonalds restaurants in the Montgomery area. As a part of a co-op of McDonalds owners, Merry had the opportunity to distribute funds from their local Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Alabama to the nonprofit organizations of their choice.

Camp ASCCA’s second annual Jingle Jump fundraiser was held on December 10, 2016, and it was a huge success thanks to campers, staff, donors, volunteers, and friends. All fundraising began on November 1st and lasted until the final splash into the ASCCA
pool on December 10th by the fundraising participants.

‘Twas a very merry ASCCA Christmas this weekend filled with Christmas cheer! Campers and counselors arrived on Friday afternoon for a jolly time of Christmas themed activities and reuniting with some of their closest friends to celebrate the holiday season.

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving focused on the holiday and end-of-year giving to organizations needing your support. The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, is spreading across social media to raise awareness about organizations that you have the opportunity to support this holiday season and Camp ASCCA is one of them.